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Current Carpets, created by textile artist Hansine Pedersen Goran are
handmade one at a time to your required size, colors and shape from pure
Woolmark 100% New Zealand wool. Each carpet is tufted at six pounds of wool
per yard. Carpets are available in any combination of cut pile, loop pile or
tipshear pile. Tipshear is a mix of cut and loop piles. One color of wool
will shade differently in cut, loop and tipshear pile, allowing for three
shades from one color. Eighty-four colors are available, allowing for two
hundred and fifty-two shades. Custom color matching and dying is also
available.
Area Carpets
Area carpets create a center, a focal point and a foundation within a space.
They add a core identity and establish a center which unites the elements
around them into a connected whole. Area carpets invite people into a space
by providing a soft and luxurious material, emotional warmth, texture and a
visual axis. People are drawn to relax, linger and interact in spaces where
there is a rich and defined center. Area carpets, like art provide
personality, depth, character, a focal point and a visual art form.
Planning Your Carpet
Design
Choose a design from the copyrighted Current Carpets designs or contact
Hansine Pedersen Goran for a custom design. Current designs are expressive,
sophisticated and offer a range of contemporary design from the elegant and
dramatic to the joyful and whimsical.
Size
The size of your area carpet will make a significant difference in the feel
and function of your room. Current Carpets standard sizes are scaled to
provide comfortable, elegant, graceful furniture arrangements with
contemporary furniture. We also offer unique shapes scaled and structured to
create dramatic and exciting room and furniture arrangements. Should you
require a unique size, we will be happy to adjust our patterns to your needs
at no charge. Measure and plan for your furniture arrangements to be
comfortably placed, preferably with the carpet within the perimeter of your
furniture legs or comfortably beyond the perimeter of furniture legs. Do you
need room for people to lay on the carpet? Do you need room for children to
play on the carpet?
Sitting Rooms
Sitting rooms such as living rooms, loft spaces, family rooms,
television rooms and great rooms require careful measuring for a graceful
arrangement and the best function. For these rooms, four sizes tend to work
well.
Small, 4 x 6 or 5 x 7. This size offers a focal point around which to
gather seating arrangements without concern for furniture legs being
partially on and off the carpet.
Medium 6 x 9 or 7 x 10. This size is large enough to accommodate small
seating arrangements on the carpet and small to medium arrangements with a
sofa off the carpet and additional seating placed on the carpet.
Large 7 x 10 and larger. This size is the most accommodating to
furniture groupings remaining on the carpet for a living platform of
furniture and function. Additional length can offer a graceful, uncrowded
feel.
Full framed room. Measure the length and width of the room and deduct 48"
from each measurement to allow for a 24" perimeter around the carpet, or
deduct 24" for a 12" perimeter.
Dining Rooms
Measure your dining room table and add 54" to the length and the width to
allow for chair movement. Additional length at the heads of the table can
offer a graceful look.
Bedrooms
As a platform under the bed, measure your bed add a minimum of 24" to
each side that is not against a wall.
Area carpets are elegant and dramatic at the foot and sides of a bed.
Hallways and Open Spaces
Area carpets are excellent focal points and works of art for open areas,
foyers and hallways.
Wall-to-wall Carpet
Area carpets are a dramatic focal point placed on top of wall-to-wall
carpets.
Your Own Palette of Colors
The Current Design Line offers you 84 colors and 252 shades to mix and match
in any way you like. Now you can make your carpet to fit your life, your
furniture, your rooms and your personality.
Design and Color
The same design will change character from subtle to dramatic, from elegant
to playful all with a little change of color. These changes can be
remarkable. If you like a design, but it is too exuberant, ask us for a
rendering in quieter colors. If you like a design, but think it needs more
punch, ask us for a rendering in exciting colors. Color has a dramatic
influence on carpet designs.
Choosing Colors
Furniture and Walls
If you have already chosen colors you are happy with for furniture and walls,
you may want to match them, tone them up or down, or contrast them for added
drama. If your furniture and walls are very colorful and you wish to tone
down your room, neutral or color absorbing colors such as grays or browns may
be a good response.
Ground Zero
If your room is neutral, or you are starting a room based on your area
carpet, the key to color starts with you. Everyone has colors they like and
color combinations that make them feel at home. For some it is an exciting
combination of red and purple, for others a calm monochromatic palette of
browns. Always choose colors you like to be with for long periods of time.
To test your response to colors, you might purchase inexpensive cloth yardage
or colored paper in colors you are considering. Lay the colors on your floor
for a few days or weeks. Notice how you like living with them and your
emotional reaction to them. Do they make you feel the way you want to feel at
home and in the particular room you are working on?
Floors
Consider the color of your floors or wall-to-wall carpet in combination with
your carpet colors.
Size and Color
It is a good idea to think about how much of a color is comfortable for you,
particularly when planning a full framed room area carpet. If, for instance,
your preference is for orange, how much orange? A 4 x 6 area of orange is
quite different from an 8 x 12 area of orange. A color you love can be used
quite differently. A color can be the entire field of the carpet, the pattern
on the carpet, or a small area depending on your preferences and the design.
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